charcoal pencil on raw linen, 16 x 14in

oil on board, 24 x 18in

PLEASE JOIN IN THE FUN FOR:

First show at the Big & Small/Casual Gallery in L.I.C.!

Matt Freedman is curating: “Twin Twin III, Artists Edition”

Opening: Friday, September 11, 5-8pm

The gallery’s first show is the third incarnation of Matt Freedman’s evolving Twin Twin project, which was installed at Vertextlist in 2005 and Pierogi in 2006. So far, the project has consisted of hundreds of everyday objects that, to Freedman, bear ghostly resemblances to the two fallen towers of the World Trade Center. The collection includes everything from modeled objects, to furniture, toys, the grating on an air conditioner and the scar on a boy’s knee. For this installation Freedman has extended the scope of the experiment and invited artist friends who are familiar with this project and share his complicated relationship with that day to contribute a piece to the collection. In his invitation to the artists he wrote:

“I want work repurposed for this show, work that would mean something else in any other context, and only in this one would remind us of 9-11. I’m not asking you to make a piece for the show, but to find a piece for the show from your own body of work. If you find you have produced work in the last eight years that you feel was influenced by 9-11, or if you see in a work of yours the shadowy image of the towers themselves for reasons you cannot fathom at all, I hope you will consider sharing that work with us for the weekend.”

oil on board, 18in x 24in

The show closes today! I hope you got a chance to see it!

Opening reception: Thurs., May 21, 6PM – 8PM (I won’t be in town for the opening – but go anyway!!)

Drawing Contemporaries, curated by Eyebeam senior fellow Michael Mandiberg, is an exhibition of works on paper made by a peer group of new media artists who all make drawings, either as a primary object, or as an experimental step in their process. The artists often use computers or algorithms as a logic structure or drawing aid in a way that is foregrounded in these works. Many of these artists are Eyebeam affiliated, but all are contemporaries whose influences upon each other can be traced in this exhibition.

Darren Kraft uses powdered graphite to photorealistically reproduce icons and logos associated with consumer and political culture; Eyebeam senior fellow Steve Lambert and Julia Schwadron write personal and poetic messages of hope which they leave taped up in public places; Michael Mandiberg uses the laser cutter to etch and carve works on paper that incorporate text, history and design; Marisa Olson performs Google image searches for obsolete technologies, and traces their contours directly off her laptop screen with a mechanical pencil; and Lee Walton creates elaborate indexes of possible graphic marks which are algorithmically used to document events as they occur. His subjects range from from pedestrian traffic to sports games.

Eyebeam is located at 540 W 21st St, and Eyebeam’s public hours are 12-6 Tuesday through Saturday

oil, charcoal and graphite on linen, 16in x 16in

oil and charcoal on linen, 16in x 16in